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SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING
  • Licensing of Private Remote-Sensing Systems

    Filed comments before the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with RTNDA and several other media groups arguing that present restrictions on commercial satellite remote sensing are unconstitutional. The comments maintain that the current policy violates the First Amendment because it amounts to a prior restraint without the requisite showing of a 'clear and present danger' or 'serious imminent threat' to national security. Revising the rules as suggested by the comments would accord the public access to information unless national security is clearly and imminently threatened. [1996]

  • NOAA Petition for Rulemaking

    Filed a Petition for Rulemaking before the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with several other media groups, organized by the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA), arguing that NOAA needed to remove any doubt that American civilian operators gathering remote-sensing imagery would be accorded the same First Amendment rights as all other established news-gathering entities. [1988]